The band just completed a round of tour dates on the east coast and maybe some of you made it out to see them? Hopefully you were able to pick up a record from them in person but if you didn’t make it to one of the shows, the album is available for order through our online store here: Order Big Hush vinyl

Big Hush released a video for their track “Cough” a few weeks back and you can watch it over at IMPOSE here if you didn’t catch it: Watch the video via IMPOSE today

“‘Cough’ is about being caught in a rut for so long that you lose touch with yourself and grow complacent about the shape of your life,” Big Hush says of the track. “The song is a plea that you could make to a friend, or yourself, to fight the easy temptation of viewing one’s identity as reducible, or static. We’re not as hard-wired as we think; we can always try to be better.”

NPR had this to say about Spirit/Wholes – “…features (appropriately) hushed vocals from all four members, cooing over a messy, punk-sick shoegaze. It can, from songs that read as intimately as notes passed between friends, make for quite the harmony-riddled racket.”

Originally envisaged as two separate albums, the ten tracks featured on Spirit/Wholes were recorded throughout 2014 and 2015. Embodying the sonic evolution of a band that has flourished with time, each track sears through dense textures and cloying harmonies with a scalding clarity. Big Hush had these comments on the album –

“Spirit/Wholes was written as two separate EPs over the span of three years, and in a way the songs are reactionary tales. That’s the way I’ve always thought of them. Each new song is a reaction to the song written before it, and the space that song inhibits, each void created by one song, is filled by the next, and so reveals a new void. The EPs seem to do the same. It’s funny, how a lot of things in life tend to embody a reactionary nature, capitalism is dictated by market reactions, relationships evolve dictated on reactions to each other, the weather reacts to changes in currents and temperature. This record is sort of an unintentional embodiment of that aspect, following a path of necessary change, in contrast to what’s always been familiar.”

In addition to the Big Hush album release, there were some great new additions and restocks to the online store the other week. Those lists are below so glance through them if you missed them the first time around, hopefully you can find something you’d like to pick up.

There are more upcoming Robotic Empire releases this fall so stay tuned! A repress of Pageninetynine’s Document 8 LP in time for their reunion shows, possibly a Pg.99 cassette and some T-shirts too. The Black Heart Procession have compiled all of their “Waiter” songs onto one album and have also written a new one! Tour dates are getting organized and I’ll announce as soon as I hear. Jesu’s – Ascension 2×12″ is going to happen this year, it’s just a matter of deciding exactly when it fits into the release schedule. More info to come as it develops. Thanks everyone and have a good rest of the summer.